Laurie Metcalf

In the book Ashes, by Laurie Halse Anderson, there is an African American girl named Isabel. Isabel is NOT the normal respectful young lady people would think she might be. Instead, I think of her as being quite opposite of that. She is nice, but I like to think of her as a tomboy. Something to remember though is they are in a war with the British. She doesn’t know who she wants to fight for at first, but then learns what either side has to offer to her. Isabel has many character traits, but to

Locked Inside a Mute Body In Laurie Anderson’s book Speak, Melinda sordino is the protagonist. The author foreshadows Melinda’s life throughout high school. Before high school, Melinda is raped by a beast named Andy Evans. This causes Melinda to go mute her whole freshman year, where she talks to no one. This was until Anderson uses symbols to explain key parts of the story with a deeper meaning. The author uses many signs of extensive detail in symbols from the use of art projects, a mirror,

“Peace is not the absence of conflict, it is the ability to handle conflict with peaceful meanings.” - Ronald Reagen. This is a quote that stands very true for Fever 1793, by Laurie Halse Anderson, and Nothing But the Truth, by AVI. In these books, characters have to overcome their own conflicts in their own ways, and whether or not it makes them change for the better. In Fever 1793, Matilda Cook has to overcome and face death head-on, Mrs. Narwin has to deal with a student who ruins her career,

one to tell. As her grades fall and her self esteem with it, she must choose to speak up against her rapist when he tries to take advantage of her again. In Laurie Halse Anderson’s Speak, the uses of the author’s life, the events that show the time period, and the philosophy of speaking up all contribute to why she wrote the novel. Laurie Halse Anderson faced many struggles as a young adult and shares her battles through the endeavors of the main characters in her books. From the beginning, “Anderson

Inciting Incident Monologue Who is she and how does she know my name? There are more eyes staring at me with disgust than I can count. I feel like an animal at the zoo, having my every move observed. I can’t move, I can’t think and I can’t speak. These people don’t know me or what happened that night. If I were bold I would say something back at them. I can feel my throat closing in as I think. I would never be able to speak. I don’t know what to do. I feel to blame for this girl whose “brother

In the novel Speak by Laurie Halse Anderson, the message the author is trying to portray is that speaking and conveying your emotions is vital to expressing feelings.Talking to someone releases a sense of relief for now somebody else knows and that specific information is not as powerful to only the protagonist. Opening up to someone releases how the protagonist feels, which is vital because then that someone will help Melinda get past the event that occurred. If Melinda doesn’t speak up and convey

Laurie Halse Anderosn has written a book which is considered as a trauma novel “speak”. Usually anger is a phase that begins with madness and ends with regret, but in this book anger will be tackled in different way, Melinda’s anger starts with silence and ends with speaking. In other words it’s starts with fear and ends with triumph over self. Over the course of the novel silence struggling with anger is leading to speak. Anderson incorporated all themes in anger direction with different techniques

Fever is a wonderful historical fiction by Laurie Halse Anderson. She has written many historical novels and Fever is one of her greatest works. This story took place in Philadelphia in 1793, when yellow fever just began to strike and kill thousands of people . Matilda Cook “little Mattie” is a daughter of a coffee shop owner. She’s a fourteen- year- old girl who works for her widowed mother. She works with a girl named Polly and a kitchen cook Eliza, a woman from the Free African Society. Mattie

Everyone in this world struggles in life. Nobody's life it's perfect. In the novel Speak by Laurie Halse Anderson, the author weaves several important themes throughout the story. This story is about a young girl who was raped in a party called Melinda. Melinda went to a party and got raped. After that, Melinda called 911. Melinda’s friends stop talking to her because she got students arrested. No one knew that she was raped. Melinda’s influence that night was the alcohol affects. Alcohol always

Have you ever struggled before? If you have or are struggling then you either need help or you need to figure it out on your own like Mattie, grandfather and the people of Philadelphia. The book is called Yellow Fever 1793 by Laurie halse Anderson and it is about how Mattie and her Grandfather and the people of Philadelphia as they are struggled through Yellow Fever.This Is about how the whole city of Philadelphia struggled during Yellow Fever. Mattie has gone through during Yellow Fever